It’s July, So Here’s Another Article on ‘the July Effect’

Vox.com pronounces that “The July effect is real: new doctors really do make hospitals more dangerous” in an article posted yesterday. As the site points out, the term “is shorthand for the supposed spike in medical mistakes at hospitals during the month of July — right when millions of medical residents start new jobs.”

Other publications have taken a crack at the topic in recent years; perhaps surprisingly, they’re not all from July. They sometimes cluster around a release of a study: